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DOE: Blue Ribbon Commission Webcast on America's Nuclear Future - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 12 Jul 10
     
    Date: July 7, 2010 The Blue Ribbon Commission on American's Nuclear Future (the Commission) was established in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), as amended, 5 U.S.C. App. 2, and as directed by the President's Memorandum for the Secretary of Energy dated January 29, 2010: Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future. This charter establishes the Commission under the authority of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
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Domenici fireworks liven up nuclear waste hearing - Carlsbad Current-Argus - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 20 Jul 10
     
    "At first glance, the agenda for last week's Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future looked pretty mundane. Who knew that former Sen. Pete Domenici - fresh from cataract surgery and sporting dark sunglasses - would bring the fireworks. The New Mexico Republican lobbed plenty of them at Ron Curry, New Mexico's secretary of environment, during a hearing to examine the Waste Isolation Pilot Project. First, a little background. The commission, appointed by President Obama earlier this year, met in Washington last Wednesday to consider best practices for disposing of high-level nuclear waste. Among those invited to testify were Curry; state Rep. John Heaton, a Carlsbad Democrat; and Don Hancock, director of the Albuquerque-based Southwest Research and Information Center. Domenici, a New Mexico Republican, is a member of the Blue Ribbon Commission."
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Relationship between Carlsbad & WIPP a roadmap for future of nuclear waste disposal - C... - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 20 Jul 10
     
    "How can the United States establish one or more disposal sites for high level nuclear waste in a way that is technically, politically and socially acceptable? State Rep. John Heaton, D-Carlsbad, told a federal blue-ribbon panel last week that the relationship between Carlsbad and the U.S. Department of Energy's Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) is the road map showing how to achieve that goal. Heaton, along with Lokesh Chaturvedi, former deputy director of the Environmental Evaluation Group, and Don Hancock, from the Southwest Research Center, were in Washington last week to present testimony before the Disposal Subcommittee of the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future. The topic was WIPP, a low-level nuclear waste repository located about 27 miles east of Carlsbad, and why it has achieved great success."
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Gallery: Blue Ribbon Commission - 0 views

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shared by Energy Net on 26 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Energy Net on 26 Jul 10
     
    "U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced the formation of a Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future to provide recommendations for developing a safe, long-term solution to managing the nation's used nuclear fuel and nuclear waste. The 15 person commission is being co-chaired by former Congressman Lee Hamilton and former National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft. They, along with officials and members of the public, toured five Hanford waste sites on Wednesday. The commission will provide advice and make recommendations on issues including alternatives for the storage, processing, and disposal of civilian and defense spent nuclear fuel and nuclear waste. "
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Department of Energy - Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future to Hold 1st M... - 0 views

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shared by Energy Net on 29 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Energy Net on 29 Mar 10
     
    "On Thursday, March 25th and Friday, March 26th, the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future, co-chaired by former Congressman Lee Hamilton and former National Security Advisor General Brent Scowcroft, will hold its first meeting in Washington, D.C. At the direction of President Obama, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu established the Blue Ribbon Commission to conduct a comprehensive review of policies for managing the back end of the nuclear fuel cycle and to provide recommendations for developing a safe, long-term solution to managing the Nation's used nuclear fuel and nuclear waste. The meeting is open to the press and the public. Press interested in attending the meeting should RSVP to Katinka.Podmaniczky@hq.doe.gov. Space is limited and credentials will be given on a first come, first serve basis on site. The meeting will be webcast live. Additional information will be available regarding the webcast on homepage. Read the meeting's agenda."
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Department of Energy - Secretary Chu Announces Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nucl... - 0 views

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  • The members of the Blue Ribbon Commission are: Lee Hamilton, Co-ChairLee Hamilton represented Indiana's 9th congressional district from January 1965-January 1999.  During his time in Congress, Hamilton served as the ranking member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and chaired the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.  He is currently president and director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and director of The Center on Congress at Indiana University.He is a member of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board and the President's Homeland Security Advisory Council.  Previously, Hamilton served as Vice Chairman of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the 9/11 Commission). Brent Scowcroft, Co-ChairBrent Scowcroft is President of The Scowcroft Group, an international business advisory firm. He has served as the National Security Advisor to both Presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush. From 1982 to 1989, he was Vice Chairman of Kissinger Associates, Inc., an international consulting firm.Scowcroft served in the military for 29 years, and concluded at the rank of Lieutenant General following service as the Deputy National Security Advisor. Out of uniform, he continued in a public policy capacity by serving on the President's Advisory Committee on Arms Control, the Commission on Strategic Forces, and the President's Special Review Board, also known as the Tower Commission. Mark Ayers, President, Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO Vicky Bailey, Former Commissioner, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; Former IN PUC Commissioner; Former Department of Energy Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs Albert Carnesale, Chancellor Emeritus and Professor, UCLA Pete V. Domenici, Senior Fellow, Bipartisan Policy Center; former U.S. Senator (R-NM) Susan Eisenhower, President, Eisenhower Group, Inc. Chuck Hagel, Former U.S. Senator (R-NE) Jonathan Lash, President, World Resources Institute Allison Macfarlane, Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University Richard A. Meserve, President, Carnegie Institution for Science, and former Chairman, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Ernie Moniz, Professor of Physics and Cecil & Ida Green Distinguished Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Per Peterson, Professor and Chair, Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California - Berkeley John Rowe, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Exelon Corporation Phil Sharp, President, Resources for the Future
  • Energy Net on 01 Feb 10
     
    "The Commission, led by Lee Hamilton and Brent Scowcroft, will provide recommendations on managing used fuel and nuclear waste Washington, D.C. - As part of the Obama Administration's commitment to restarting America's nuclear industry, U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu today announced the formation of a Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future to provide recommendations for developing a safe, long-term solution to managing the Nation's used nuclear fuel and nuclear waste. The Commission is being co-chaired by former Congressman Lee Hamilton and former National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft. In light of the Administration's decision not to proceed with the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, President Obama has directed Secretary Chu to establish the Commission to conduct a comprehensive review of policies for managing the back end of the nuclear fuel cycle. The Commission will provide advice and make recommendations on issues including alternatives for the storage, processing, and disposal of civilian and defense spent nuclear fuel and nuclear waste. "
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Nuclear Energy Institute - NEI Recommends Series of Policies to DOE's Blue Ribbon Commi... - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 31 May 10
     
    "The nuclear energy industry made several policy recommendations today to the blue ribbon commission counseling the U.S. Department of Energy on future management of used nuclear fuel and nuclear waste. These recommendations included the value of centralized temporary storage of used fuel assemblies, the continuing need for a geologic disposal facility even if used fuel is recycled, and a new management and financing structure for the entity that oversees the program. "The greatest service that the commission can render to the nation is to develop a used fuel management policy that will endure, define a process for implementing the policy, determine the timelines to be followed to achieve the policy, and delineate the legal and legislative changes needed to make the policy a reality," said Nuclear Energy Institute President and Chief Executive Officer Marvin Fertel in a presentation to the commission."
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The Associated Press: Tribes: Nuclear waste can't be stored at Hanford - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 20 Jul 10
     
    "The Hanford nuclear reservation is already the most contaminated U.S. nuclear site, and federal efforts to find a permanent place for all of the nation's radioactive waste shouldn't impede plans to clean it up, people from various backgrounds told a federal commission Wednesday. The panel, appointed by President Barack Obama to examine U.S. nuclear waste policies, toured the Hanford site, heard from local advocacy groups and Northwest American Indian tribes about the need for cleanup. The visit to south-central Washington was one of several planned around the country by the 15-member Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future. The group is charged with reviewing U.S. treatment, transportation and disposal of radioactive waste."
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Experts explore Yucca alternative - ReviewJournal.com - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 01 Sep 09
     
    For more than 20 years, the government's plan to dispose of highly radioactive spent fuel piling up at U.S. nuclear power reactors has been to haul it to Yucca Mountain and entomb it in a maze of tunnels. But this year, more than a decade before the first shipment was ever expected to arrive at the mountain, 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas, and years before a license could have been approved for the project, the Obama administration halted funding, saying the Nevada site was "not an option." That prompted a group of university experts on nuclear waste policy to explore another plan. That plan, they hope, will chart the course for a soon-to-be-chosen Department of Energy blue ribbon panel to follow as it sets out to develop a new national nuclear waste strategy.
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DOE to Study Storage Options for Spent Nuclear Fuel, Small Reactors -- Official - NYTim... - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 28 Dec 09
     
    The Energy Department is close to naming a blue-ribbon committee to consider new policies for dealing with spent nuclear reactor fuel but has further to go in completing negotiations on loan guarantees for a first group of new nuclear reactors, Deputy Energy Secretary Daniel Poneman said. Poneman also said he is interested in the possibilities for development of smaller modular nuclear reactors, calling this a potentially important carbon policy option in the United States and abroad. "I certainly agree with the premise that small, modular reactors are a very interesting path to explore," Poneman said in an interview this week.
  • Energy Net on 28 Dec 09
     
    The Energy Department is close to naming a blue-ribbon committee to consider new policies for dealing with spent nuclear reactor fuel but has further to go in completing negotiations on loan guarantees for a first group of new nuclear reactors, Deputy Energy Secretary Daniel Poneman said. Poneman also said he is interested in the possibilities for development of smaller modular nuclear reactors, calling this a potentially important carbon policy option in the United States and abroad. "I certainly agree with the premise that small, modular reactors are a very interesting path to explore," Poneman said in an interview this week.
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Advice for the Blue Ribbon Commission | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 29 Mar 10
     
    "# After closing Yucca Mountain, President Barack Obama has set up a 15-member commission of industry, academic, and government experts to consider nuclear waste disposal options. # The major questions that the commission will consider are not new or unknown, nor are the answers to these problems. # Hopefully, the commission will motivate the country to finally deal with the toxic legacy of the nuclear age."
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Platts: Importance of transparency stressed to US nuclear waste panel - 0 views

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shared by Energy Net on 31 May 10 - Cached
  • Energy Net on 31 May 10
     
    "The US' search for a new spent fuel storage or disposal facility must be transparent, and state and local governments should be part of any early siting discussions, speakers told President Barack Obama's blue ribbon commission on nuclear waste Tuesday. The common threads of openness, and community and state engagement, were woven through many of the presentations the commission heard as it starts to evaluate how the US should proceed with a new strategy for managing utilities' spent fuel and the US Department of Energy's highly radioactive nuclear defense waste. The Obama administration established the commission to evaluate alternatives to the proposed nuclear waste repository project at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, roughly 95 miles outside Las Vegas. "
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Aiken-area group wants nuclear waste study - Local / Metro - TheState.com - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 16 Nov 09
     
    Aiken-area business leaders say the Savannah River Site may become the nation's high-level nuclear waste dumping ground if the federal government drops plans for a disposal site in Nevada. But the SRS Community Reuse Organization says shelving the Yucca Mountain site is a bad idea, and it says the nation now needs to figure out how to dispose of high-level nuclear waste. The group's mission supports job creation in the five counties around SRS, a 300-square mile nuclear weapons site. Aiken, Augusta and surrounding communities could suffer a bad image if the waste is left at SRS, making it harder to recruit industry, the reuse organization said in a statement Monday. It is calling for a special blue-ribbon panel to study options for disposing of waste.
  • Energy Net on 16 Nov 09
     
    Aiken-area business leaders say the Savannah River Site may become the nation's high-level nuclear waste dumping ground if the federal government drops plans for a disposal site in Nevada. But the SRS Community Reuse Organization says shelving the Yucca Mountain site is a bad idea, and it says the nation now needs to figure out how to dispose of high-level nuclear waste. The group's mission supports job creation in the five counties around SRS, a 300-square mile nuclear weapons site. Aiken, Augusta and surrounding communities could suffer a bad image if the waste is left at SRS, making it harder to recruit industry, the reuse organization said in a statement Monday. It is calling for a special blue-ribbon panel to study options for disposing of waste.
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  • Energy Net on 21 Jun 10
     
    "AFTER MORE than 20 years, four administrations and billions of dollars spent, Yucca Mountain is the one place in America that a new Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future cannot look to put this country's nuclear waste. Created by the Obama administration after it jettisoned the Nevada project, the commission, which will meet for the third time in July, is to make its recommendations two years from now -- rendering any action unlikely until after the 2012 elections. We must wait two years -- for what, exactly? "
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Atomic waste is wasting taxpayer dollars | lancastereaglegazette.com | Lancaster Eagle ... - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 26 Jul 10
     
    "Thirty years ago, the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board selected Yucca Mountain, Nevada, as the nation's only permanent storage site for the radioactive waste from our nuclear power plants. Work proceeded during this period to secure walls and ceilings from possible earthquakes, paving interior roads and installing more extensive infrastructure. All of this added up to expenditures of $10 billion. This past March, the U.S. Energy Department notified the board they intended to abandon the Yucca site because it was "too small." This must be government at its worst. An Energy Department spokeswoman said that the president was establishing a blue-ribbon commission to find a "safe, long term solution" within 18 months."
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Bush EPA Shirks Responsibility Over Perchlorate Contamination; EPA Call for New Study a... - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 14 Jan 09
     
    n a last-ditch effort to avoid regulating widespread perchlorate contamination of drinking water, the Bush Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is calling for yet another blue-ribbon study of the toxic rocket fuel component and widespread pollutant. While the work of the National Academy of Sciences is highly respected, the EPA leadership's attempt to have NAS conduct a new review of perchlorate has to be seen as nothing more than an effort to dodge the issue and buy time for the defense, aerospace and chemical industries, which have been lobbying aggressively to avoid millions in perchlorate clean-up costs. "We know enough about perchlorate's thyroid-disrupting properties to understand that our government has to address this danger immediately," said Dr. Anila Jacob, Senior Scientist with Environmental Working Group (EWG). "EPA has fought every call for a safety standard for perchlorate in drinking water, prompting Congress to introduce measures compelling the agency to do so. Now, with less than two weeks left in power, the Bush team has come up with a last-minute ploy - another study that will amount to a delaying action."
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Panel faults safety resources after plutonium leak - Examiner.com - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 11 Nov 08
     
    A commission formed after a plutonium leak at a National Institute of Standards and Technology lab in Boulder says the agency suffers from "a serious lack of resources for safety." The Blue Ribbon Commission on Management and Safety released its findings Friday, five months after at least a dozen people were exposed to plutonium at the lab. Officials have said none are expected to suffer significant health effects. About a quarter-gram of powder containing the radioactive material spilled through a crack in a vial on June 9. The report says safety is not a "core value" across the NIST, and it blames a lack of leadership.
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Report: Safety not 'core value' at NIST : Science and Environment : Boulder Daily Camera - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 11 Nov 08
     
    The National Institute of Standards and Technology doesn't put a priority on safety and doesn't give researchers and scientists the tools they need to be safe, according to a report released Friday by a blue-ribbon commission charged with analyzing the adequacy of NIST's safety programs. U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez formed the commission in August after a plutonium spill June 9 on Boulder's NIST campus. The commission's report said the staff at NIST "is eager, willing and ready to embrace a safety culture," but that it needs leadership to make that happen.
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ReviewJournal.com - Nuclear industry calls for Yucca Mountain fallback - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 18 Feb 09
     
    The government affairs arm of the nuclear industry today called for President Barack Obama to convene a blue ribbon nuclear waste commission, a move that could be a first step toward forming alternatives to burying radioactive power plant fuel at Yucca Mountain. With the future uncertain for the Nevada project, the Nuclear Energy Institute is endorsing a fresh look at nuclear fuel management, an NEI official told an audience of state utility regulators. Under the proposal, the Department of Energy would be allowed to continue pursuing a license to build the Yucca repository while the study was being conducted over a 12- to 24-month period.
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AFP: Obama's energy chief announces nuclear waste panel - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 14 Mar 09
     
    US Energy Secretary Steven Chu backed a new generation of nuclear power Wednesday, and said a panel of experts would report back this year on the best long-term storage of radioactive waste. The Nobel laureate scientist, chosen by President Barack Obama to lead an ambitious drive for renewable energy, said nuclear power was also an "essential part of our energy mix" along with cleaner coal and carbon capture. Chu said he was convening a "blue-ribbon panel" of experts to "develop a long-term strategy that must include the waste disposal plan," after Obama's budget ruled out a proposed national repository at Nevada's Yucca Mountain.
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